Dr. Alshareef graduated medical school in 2003, ranking First in his class at UCE School of Medicine. He achieved board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine 2009-2019, and is currently board certified by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

He joined Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NYU in New York, where he finished his Internal Medicine residency in 2008, after which he worked as a hospitalist for 4 years. He later joined the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland- Ohio,